Geostatistiske
Geostatistics is a branch of statistics that deals with spatial or spatiotemporal data, aiming to quantify spatial variation and to predict values at locations where measurements are not available. In Norwegian usage, the term geostatistiske refers to methods, models, and results associated with geostatistics.
The discipline emerged in the 1960s through the work of Georges Matheron and colleagues, who introduced the
Interpolation and prediction are typically carried out with kriging, a family of linear unbiased estimators that
Data are usually point measurements, but block data and gridded surfaces are common in practice. Analyses rely
Geostatistical methods are applied in mining and mineral exploration, hydrogeology, environmental science, agriculture, petroleum, and epidemiology.